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EDVARD ll. (lAYLOR, OF COLUMBUS, Ol'llO, AND (lllARlililS li. llIOUREERY, OF

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SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of' Letters Patent No. 396,806, dated January 29, 18S9. Application filed Tune G, 1887. Serial No. 240,435. (No model.)

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Be it known that we, EDWARD ll. (YAYLOR and CHARLEs Il. MCGREERY, citizens of the United States of:l America, the tormer residing at Columbus, in the oountyof l`ranl lin and State of Ohio, and the latter at l-elvidere,` in the county ot' Boone and State ot' Illinois, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Slrning-lileds, ot' which the `t'ollowing' is a specification, reference being had therein to the aiscompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improren'lents in spring bed-lmttoms, the novel features of construction ot which are hereinafter described, and particular] y set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l repri-sents a plan View ot' the double springs lforming the upper or supporting surface oithe bed-bottom. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a plan View oiA a portion oi a bed-bottom, illustrating the manner of spacing the slats thereof., so as to have a construction ot' adjustable width. Fig. i represents the same in end elevation. Fig. 5 represents a plan View ot the entire bed-bottom constructed in accordance with our invention and supported upon cross-bars, and Fig. 6 represents said bed-llottom as t'olded for transportation or storage.

Similar letters of roteren ce indicate similar parts throughout the several Views.

Generally speaking, the bed-bottom is made up of a number ot' longitudinal slats, f, united and spaced by cross-stays C, and each bearing an independent series oi' double coil-springs, A. The said slnrings A are formed from a single piece of wire, c, formed at its ends into spring-coils l), and having at its middle portion rectangular bends lying in a common plane and forming a continuous connection between the upper ends of the twin coils l). At their lower extremities the coils are provided with the cross-bends or retaining-hooks d, terminating in the points f, the arrangement being such that the coils will be retained upon the slats g by being clamped at their bases between the cross-bends d and the points f, which latter are adapted to bite l into the wood ot the under surface of said slats. Immediately back of the points f the wire is bent, as shown, into iinger-loops e, whereby the points may be released from their engagement with the slats when it is desired lo remove or rea-djust the springs A.

lllnm the bed-bottom is to be used, it is placed upon cross-slats D of a bedtrame, as indicated in Fig. The width oi the bed bottom is regulated to correspond with the widthot' the bed-frame by means ot' the adjustable spring cross-stays (l, which constitute the means of spacing' the slats with reference to each other, and cousequentlyserve to gov ern the width ot' the bed-hottom as a whole. These cross-stays are preferably formed from a single piece of wire having coils s, adapted to rest upon the upper surfaces of the slats g, bends or retaining-hooks d fitting beneath said slats, and terminating' in points j" and releasing :finger-loops c. The points f are directed from, each other and maintain the slats in the particular adjustment chosen, while at the same time permitting said adj ustment to be altered by releasiilg the points by means of the finger-loops e', and moving the slats from or imvard each other the distance desired, thereby increasing or deereasing the width of the bedbottom- It will be noted that as the cross-stays are attached to adjacent slats the width of the bed-bottom may be changed within a considerable limit of Variation.

The springs s of the cross-stays permit the bed-bottom to be folded latenfally, as indicated in Fig. G, which could not readily be accomplished were the middle portion of said crossstays joined directly to the bends d', instead of through the intermediacy of said springs.

le are aware that it has been. heretofore proposed to unite a series of slats bearing a series ot longitudinal springs by cross-stays, which permitted the width of the bed-bottom to be varied byreason ot' the elasticity of said cross stays. le do not therefore claim, broadly, the use of' adjusting cross-stays. By our construction, however, we obtain a bedbottoni that can not only be adjusted to different widths, but which also may be rolled.

Having thus described our invention, what we Claim, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, is#

A bed-bottoni Consisting of u sel-ies of 1ongitudinal slats, euch of said slats being independent of the other and bearing a series 0flongitudinal sp1-ings, said sp1-ings constitu ti ng the support for the bed-mattress, and an independent series of adjusting Cross-stays eonnecting' adjacent sluts and constituting the only connection between said slats, said crossstays consistingof eom'leeted Coils resting, iespeetively, upon the uppeivl sui-faces of a-djacent slats, and having retaining-clips biting into the under surfaces of said slats, whereby the width of the bedb0tto1n may be Varied by moving the slats toward 01 from each other and .the bed-bottoni may be rolled, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we afix oui' signatures each in the presence o 'f two witnesses.

EDWARD H. CAYLOR. (IHAS. II. MCCREERY. Vtnesses:

B. KENNEDY, C. B. KENNEDY, 

